Maple Street Elementary School

Set in Contoocook, New Hampshire, Maple Street Elementary School is a modestly sized middle-grades school, overseen by Hopkinton School District. It teaches 219 students across grades 4 through 6. That puts it 42% smaller than the typical public school in New Hampshire, which averages around 379 students.

Across the 4 schools in Hopkinton School District (937 students total), Maple Street Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Maple Street Elementary School shows that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. Compared to Merrimack County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 10% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Merrimack County runs at roughly 25%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Maple Street Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.1%, the actual is 67.6%, a residual of +10.5 points.

In the area at large, Merrimack County reports that the typical household earns roughly $97,004 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Maple Street Elementary School is one of 61 public schools in Merrimack County (combined enrollment of about 17,429 students).

Hopkinton High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Maple Street Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 52.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. Maple Street Elementary School's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 218 (now 219). The White share of enrollment edged down from 92% to 88% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.